Destiny Only Han

It is the third day of the seventh lunar month in the eighth year of the Great Sage.

Chang'an City.

Imperial City.

Baihu Street.

According to the Five Elements theory, the West belongs to gold and its color is white, so there is a saying that the White Tiger in the West has seven constellations.

Therefore, the long street to the west of Weiyang Palace was named Baihu Street.

The white tiger has many magical powers such as avoiding evil, preventing disasters, praying for good fortune and punishing evil, promoting good deeds, and making money. Therefore, there are many banks on the east and west sides of Baihu Street, where most of them are wealthy businessmen and nobles.

Of course, the reason why banks gather in Baihu Street is mainly because of the good public security here.

After all, Baihu Street and Weiyang Palace are only separated by a moat, and soldiers in armor can be seen patrolling everywhere.

Today, there were as many as a thousand soldiers on patrol. They were divided into several teams and took turns walking up and down the long street, while the rest stood in the shade of the trees to rest.

Without him, hot.

Nine fifteen in the morning.

People were already coming and going on the long street, rubbing shoulders. Although everyone was sweating profusely, no one left here. They were all panting and enduring, but they were all crowded on the road in a very obedient manner. Next to it, there is no encroachment on the main road.

Well, this is mainly why Chang'an County sent county soldiers armed with sticks to maintain order.

In a short while, hundreds of carriages drove into the long street and stopped next to a building covered with red cloth and decorated very luxuriously.

Liu Ying got off the carriage and stretched in an inconspicuous manner.

"Why so many people?"

Behind him, Liu Bang got off the carriage, his face filled with wonder.

Liu Ying laughed twice: "Of course, these are all here to target new speculators."

"What's new?" Liu Bang asked.

"How do you put it..." Liu Ying scratched her head: "Didn't the Internal Affairs Bureau issue new bonds? The first few batches of bonds were drawn by lot to determine the buyers, and then these people had inspected the assets before and were waiting for the win. The rush to buy new bonds after the number..."

"I don't understand." Liu Bang shook his head.

"You just understand that they are Lu Buwei who has a rare commodity, and the bonds are Ying Yiren!" Liu Ying forced an analogy: "The bonds are bearer, and after they buy them, they can make a very small sum of money by selling them!"

"After all, the credibility of bonds issued by the government is guaranteed, and you only make profits without losing money!"

Liu Bang suddenly realized: "So that's it..."

Lu Wan, who was the third to get off the carriage, sighed: "Times have really changed. In the past, rich people bought land everywhere, but now they are all swarming over to buy bonds, and those who buy land and rent it have become a minority..."

It's normal, because there are no agricultural subsidies in Dahan at this stage... Liu Ying smiled and said nothing.

Liu Le, who got off another carriage, came over and explained: "Because you spend money to buy land, and then you make very little money by leasing the land!"

As she spoke, she hugged Liu Bang's arm and glared at Liu Ying: "Last year, the empire issued a decree that prohibited idle farmland, otherwise the government would impose additional taxes! Now, those farmers who lease other people's land are becoming more and more miserable. They They are clamoring to either reduce the land rent or simply cancel the tenancy!”

"I don't know about others, but I lose a lot of money every year!"

"Anyway, I don't want to buy land now that I have money..."

If you make less money, you will lose money. Interesting... Liu Ying remained silent.

Liu Bang frowned.

The Han Dynasty followed a system of twenty-level military honors. It had both land granting laws and land limited laws, which levied high taxes on cultivated land beyond the land legally owned by a person's title.

But today's Han Dynasty still implements the policy of light corvee and low taxation at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Therefore, even the so-called 'high' taxes were still much lower than the agricultural taxes of later feudal dynasties.

The important thing is that there are policies and countermeasures. The difference between wealthy families and ordinary people is their large population. In this way, they can reasonably avoid taxes by holding land on behalf of others.

Therefore, buying land, hiring people to farm it, and then buying the land after obtaining profits has become the safest way for many emerging powerful people to expand their wealth.

However, under the New Deal, the reduction in income from land holdings will inevitably weaken the motivation of everyone, including powerful households, to buy land and open up wasteland, which will indirectly affect the empire's tax growth.

Well, he is not too worried about land annexation. After all, the current Han Dynasty has a vast territory, with land that cannot be fully cultivated in 100 years!

Therefore, Liu Bang asked: "Although the Han Dynasty has a large population, there are still large areas of uncultivated farmland in Guanzhong, not to mention other places. Under the New Deal, will there still be big households buying land to open up wasteland?"

Liu Ying shook her head: "It doesn't matter, just leave the land to give to the new population... I haven't seen last year's accounting document. You don't know that today's Han Dynasty has millions of adult men every year!"

"Suppose all of these people are bastards without titles. One person has one hundred acres of land, and 1 people have one million acres. What if there are one million people?"

"If you don't give people land, why do they have to do corvee work? Why do they have to prepare their own dry food and travel thousands of miles to guard the border?"

After Liu Ying finished speaking, she confidently inserted her waist.

"Okay, you are the emperor now, you have the final say..." Liu Bang shook his head. Although his tone was stiff, his heart was filled with relief.

The strong master beats the ancestor.

He is better at conquering the world, but when it comes to governing the world and formulating national policies in advance, he has to admit that Liu Ying is much better than him!
However, one generation is getting stronger than the other, which is a beautiful thing, isn't it?
Liu Bang laughed silently and chatted with a group of old heroes who came over.

Liu Ying breathed a sigh of relief.

In front of so many people, it was hard for him to say something clearly.

Reducing land revenue is a means to force capital to go overseas and invest in industry and commerce.

Taking the Dutch East India Company in later generations as an example, the annual return on its stock reached a maximum of 40.00%, but this was due to accidental events and normally hovered around 20.00%.At the same time in Jiangnan, one acre of land was worth about five taels of silver. The landlord's land rent income was "at best, one stone and two buckets per mu, but the real income was only one stone." One stone of rice was usually worth one or two taels of silver.

Of course, it can drop to five taels in a good year, but it can also rise to five taels in a bad year.

Therefore, based on normal years, the return rate of buying land is higher than using money to support overseas trade!

Considering the uncertainties of doing business at sea, such as encountering storms, pirates and other reasons that lead to losing all your money, for landlords to embrace the age of navigation, the profit must be at least 30.00%!

However, apart from gold mining, what project can be so profitable?

Even industries such as spices, porcelain, raw silk, and tea that are both monopolistic and hugely profitable do not have such high profits!

Therefore, for the landed aristocrats, buying land is the most cost-effective option!

Buy land, rent, and then use the money earned to support the children and nephews in the family to study, take the imperial examination, and become officials. Once they have power, they can own more land, and then enter this cycle until the dynasty changes...

The same is true for the big man.

After all, it is written in the "Book of Han" that the fields of the rich are connected to each other, while the poor are dead and established in the land!

Therefore, if we want the Han people to get out of this rut ​​and let capital take its eyes off the land, we can only increase the land rent.

But this is inconsistent with today's big man and Liu Ying's plan for the future.

After all, food is the first priority for the people and agriculture is the first priority for the country. Ordinary farmers need government subsidies rather than higher taxes when producing food.

Comrade Lao Ma said it well, capitalists are just personified capital.His soul is the soul of capital.Capital has only one instinct for life, which is to multiply itself...

Therefore, Liu Ying is using this kind of off-market move to force capital to add value where he wants the capital to go.

For example, overseas plantations, mines, ports...

Consider the bond market.

Especially finance.

Today's big men are very similar to the national entrepreneurship of a certain period in later generations. There is no shortage of money-making projects, ideas, and outlets for making money. What is lacking is the first pot of gold to start the project.

Royal Bank will undoubtedly be the provider of this first pot of gold!
Liu Ying looked at the Chang'an people and wealthy households from all over the country who were queuing up under the scorching sun on the other side, and she became more and more sure.

But his eyes were quickly attracted by the carriage approaching in the distance.

On that car, the flag of Lu was clearly hanging.

After a while, the carriage stopped, and a figure that Liu Ying was very familiar with stepped out of it.

He was a wealthy old man with gray hair and many wrinkles, but his face was rosy and his back was straight. He often smiled, making him feel particularly friendly and easy-going.

This is none other than Lu Gong.

Next to Mr. Lu was a man with a red face and gray beard and hair.

That's Lu Ze.

"It's so hot, who told you to call my grandpa here?" Liu Ying glared at Liu Le next to her.

Liu Le looked aggrieved.

It's really not her this time!
Behind Liu Ying, Lu Pheasant, who had come to join in the fun, said expressionlessly: "It's me! What, do you have any objections?"

Liu Ying quickly put on a flattering smile: "No, I haven't seen my grandma for a long time. I miss her so much!"

After he finished speaking, he ran over quickly.

"My grandson pays homage to my grandson!"

Liu Ying lifted up the hem of her clothes and paid homage.

Behind him, Liu Yan, who was dragged over from a distance by Lu Pheasant, also hurriedly knelt on the ground. Although he had a smile on his face, he was dissatisfied because the ground was too hot.

After all, Lu Gong had never been in good health. Lu Zhi disliked Liu Yan for being too noisy and didn't let Liu Yan go to Lu Gong's knees to have sex.

Therefore, since they are not familiar with each other, they will naturally not show true feelings like Liu Ying, with her eyes slightly red.

Lu Gong was also a little moved.

Today, Liu Ying is the emperor of the Han Empire. There are very few people in the world who dare to look directly at Liu Ying, but such a powerful person has to prostrate himself in front of him and kowtow repeatedly.

This made the old man feel extremely proud.

After all, this is the son his daughter gave birth to in ten months of pregnancy, and he is his grandson by blood!

I have to say that marrying his daughter to a boastful bearded man was the most correct decision he made in his life!
Lu Gong stretched out his hand tremblingly: "Get up quickly, there are people everywhere watching... You are the emperor now!"

"What's the point?" Liu Ying forced a smile on her face: "The great Han rules the world with filial piety. How can he be considered emperor if his grandson kowtows to his grandson a few times?"

Even so, he stood up, and Lu Ze supported Lu Gong from left to right.

But soon, Lu Ze was pushed aside by Lu Pheasant. He hugged Lu Gong's arm and muttered: "It's true, eldest brother, he always keeps dad in the palace, and doesn't even ask you to go out for a walk more often." , look at it, you’re fat again, aren’t you?”

"As the saying goes, nothing can buy you old age and weight loss..."

"You will come back to Linguang Palace with me later, and follow Liu Yan for a run every morning to lose weight!"

Lu Gong felt that his legs were as hard as walking on cotton, and his face was speechless.

The one who was even more speechless was Liu Yan.

Everyone has left, but he is still kneeling there! (End of chapter)